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red
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I already have Mint 11 and would like to upgrade to 12. Would I have to do a complete reinstall and lose everything that I have saved on my current system? If so, is there a way around this?
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lucasbytegenius
Guest
I believe you simply have to run the update program included with your system and it will ask you if you want to upgrade to the latest version of Mint. Nothing will be lost 
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Rob
Guest
Hey red,
LinuxMint has a nice walkthrough on how to upgrade linuxmint here: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
LinuxMint has a nice walkthrough on how to upgrade linuxmint here: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
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Victor Leigh
Guest
I am hearing quite a bit about Mint nowadays. What's the main attraction of Mint? I mean besides having a refreshing name.
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lucasbytegenius
Guest
Well they've got a desktop a bit similar to Windows, unlike Ubuntu. And they don't use Unity, which a lot of people have been hating lately.
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Victor Leigh
Guest
In that case, I may give Mint a try. btw does it run from a pendrive? And can I make a Mint pendrive without using a cdrom? I am asking because my cdrom drive is dead.
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red
Guest
Yes, Mint is bootable from a USB drive. I like it for it's unique color scheme, and it's slick style. I'm fairly new to Linux so I am a bit partial since I've only used RHEL, CentOS and Mint. It's also very easy to set-up dual boot with their 'Win2Mint' application which comes with the .iso
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Victor Leigh
Guest
I have used that feature in Ubuntu. It's called wubi. I have problems trying to make an Ubuntu pendrive from Puppy Linux. Does anyone know how to do that?
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lucasbytegenius
Guest
Unetbootin is really great: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
I use it every time I need to make a Linux pendrive.
